The persuasive speech that I watched online was given by a recently graduated high school student named Elijah Miles in Baltimore City of Maryland. Elijah is a summer intern at Teach for America and was delivering his inspiring speech to a group of incoming teachers at the institute. Elijah speech was all about making a change on the way incoming teachers taught the youth in not only his former high school but also schools in his city.
At the beginning of the speech Elijah stated that he had a hard time preparing for his speech because he didn’t want to disagree with people and wasn’t sure if he was in the right to say what he was going to say. However, he wanted to convert the teaching ways of incoming teachers. He then states how he just